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About Me

I am a husband and father of one who has been investing in stocks since 2001. I started consistently pursuing a dividend growth philosophy in 2011. I converted after reading Roxann Klugman's Dividend Growth Investment Strategybook.

Before getting married in 2013, my wife and I moved to a house in Gatineau Quebec from our separate condos in 2012. I enjoy life on "the other side of the Ottawa River", even if the higher personal income taxes are a hard pill to swallow each April. Although I am not fluently bilingual, my French is improving and I am able to communicate in both of Canada's official languages.

Currently, I work as a credit analyst, but have been an accountant, auditor, and consultant in various past lives. Along my career path, I acquired the Certified Management Accountant (now CPA, CMA) and Chartered Financial Analyst ("CFA") professional designations. The experience I gained as an accountant, and my work in the pursuit of my CFA charter helps me analyze companies for potential investment.

When I am not chasing after my son, I enjoy reading, running, and playing ultimate frisbee. My favorite authors include Michael Connelly, Douglas Coupland, John Sanford, and Barry Eisler. I also read numerous blogs and personal finance books in an attempt to improve my investment results. I have slowly became less competitive in my athletic pursuits, now content to train and play sports simply to stay in shape.

Writing has long been a creative outlet for me. My goal of maintaining this blog is to document my journey to financial independence using a dividend growth investing. I find it extremely helpful to go back and look at my decision making process before buying and selling, as a way to monitor myself and hold myself accountable. Although this blog started off being directed more internally than externally, I slowly started to orient my posts to an external audience during the summer of 2015.

If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to leave a comment or message me. Although I have chosen not to post pictures of myself all over the site, I am always happy to meet a like-minded investor or individual with opposing views.

Anyway, back to investment and dividend Investing. I really like your portfolio. Actually, it'll be fun to know much about it. Like average-cost and that sort of things. You have some mighty good stock picks -- some of which we share.

I just bookmarked your site and will make sure to come back and visit another Québécois from time to time.

Disclaimer

This blog represents my personal investing strategy given my own investment goals and risk tolerance. Entries are not meant as investment advice. I am not an investment professional or a financial advisor. I am not responsible for the investment choices readers make, nor am I responsible for the comments posted by readers.